Ingredients: water, pasta, asparagus, a handful of rocket (or baby spinach leaves if you prefer), olive oil.
Cook some pasta in a pot. While it's cooking, chop some asparagus into pieces about 3cm long. Put them in a bowl. When the pasta is cooked, scoop some of the hot pasta water onto the asparagus to blanch it for about 1 minute. Drain the pasta. Drain the asparagus. Put the pasta, asparagus and leaves in a bowl. Stir them together. If it's a bit dry, stir in a little olive oil. Eat.
(Works with ravioli and bow tie pasta. I don't think it would work so well with long pasta.)
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Date: 2010-11-21 12:18 am (UTC)Cook some pasta in a pot.
While it's cooking, chop some asparagus into pieces about 3cm long. Put them in a bowl.
When the pasta is cooked, scoop some of the hot pasta water onto the asparagus to blanch it for about 1 minute.
Drain the pasta.
Drain the asparagus.
Put the pasta, asparagus and leaves in a bowl. Stir them together. If it's a bit dry, stir in a little olive oil.
Eat.
(Works with ravioli and bow tie pasta. I don't think it would work so well with long pasta.)